Monday, May 23, 2011

An address delivered from Pennsylvania’s Death Row to the‘Imprisonment of a Race’ Conference, presented by the Center for AfricanAmerican Studies at Princeton University on March 25, 2011by Mumia Abu-Jamal, M.A.

Noting that “the U.S., with barely 5 percent of the world’spopulation, imprisons 25 percent of the world’s prisoners” and “that theBlack working class and poor constitute a caste,” Mumia urges us toform “a new popular movement that struggles to break this caste systemonce and for all.” How long will we make this young man and nearly amillion more Black people locked up right now wait. How long must thecommunities and the children they left behind suffer without them?

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is a news and discussion forum for supporters of political prisoners, prisoners of war, politicized social prisoners, and victims of police and state intimidation.

This blog is organized and updated autonomously of the disbanded Break the Chains Prisoner Support Network formerly based in Eugene, Oregon. While this online project shares several of the same concerns as the old Break the Chains collective, no formal organization exists behind the current web presence.

"I will never surrender my pride and dignity nor allow the system to 'cut my tongue' and I will always, without fear, speak out against these war crimes and crimes against humanity, no matter if I spend the rest of my life in a prison cage, and draw my last breath of air laying down in this steel bed surrounded by razor-wire fences and cages, and its prison policies that are designed to destroy one's humanity…."